Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Pietà (after Giovanni Bellini)
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Pietà (after Giovanni Bellini)
Date1979
Artist
Henry Moore
(British, 1898 - 1986)
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 79(88)
Date Order NumberAG 79.116
Mediaballpoint pen
Paperwhite lightweight wove
Dimensionspaper: 210 x 147 mm
Signature
ballpoint pen l.r. Moore/79
Inscription
ballpoint pen l.l. Bellini/Pieta (sic)
OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: acquired 1987
More InformationOn the verso is a fragment of photocopy of HMF73/4(16)
Moore long admired the work of Giovanni Bellini and had, in 1975, already chosen to draw an 'interpretation' of Bellini's Pietà in the collection of the Brera Museum in Milan
